Human Race Quotes - Page 23

• Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

  Todd Akin

  Race, Homosexual Marriage, Civilization

  "4 Crazy Gay Marriage Predictions That Never Came True". Interview with Jessie Kissinger, www.esquire.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Race, Color

  "Breaking the Cycle". Cairo Times Interview, October 23, 2003.

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• Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

  Murray Rothbard

  Race, Enemy, Progress

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• Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.

  Alex Steffen

  Animal, Race, Air

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race!

  Rene Barjavel

  Blow, Race, World

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Elements, Authority

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Progress, Littles

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• God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Son, Men

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Apr 04, 2015

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• Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Simple, Race

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• Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

  Richard Conniff

  Beer, Race, Two

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• Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

  Confucius

  Adversity, Sacrifice, Race

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 46, 1895.

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• A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

  John Ciardi

  Race, Civilization, Savages

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• Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Simple, Race, India

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• War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Intelligent, Epidemics

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fun, Race, Faces

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.2

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• trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

  Ann Landers

  Race, Stupidity, Cards

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

  Ouida

  Sweet, Passion, Race

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

  Virginia Woolf

  Race, Fishing, Differences

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3201, Delphi Classics

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• Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Race, Tears

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.190

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• Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Rights, Race, Selfishness

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• Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.

  Jan Struther

  Rain, Weather, Race

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Light, Race, World

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.111, McClelland & Stewart

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• Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

  Bella Abzug

  Race, Half, Apologizing

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• By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

  Edmund Burke

  Moving, Fall, Race

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

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• Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Thinking, Race

  Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

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